The Reality Apologetics Conference is an annual highlight for Salem youth in grades 9-12. Hosted by Grace Church of Eden Prairie, Minnesota, Stand to Reason brings this conference and challenges youth to go deeper in their faith and deeper in their defense of their faith. Our youth will join 4000 youth from across the region to be challenged. You won’t want to miss this amazing weekend.

November 7-8, 2025

Registration now open! Deadline to register is Wednesday, September 10.

Cost $175 with a $50 deposit required at registration.

Please connect with Angela if you are using Dinner Theater Funds.

From Stand to Reason:

Take a deep breath. Feel the air enter and exit your lungs.

Now, let me ask you something: before I said that, were you actively thinking about your breathing? Probably not. Yet, you've been doing it all day—at least, I hope you have.

Breathing is essential. You can’t survive without it. But most of the time, you don’t even notice it. It’s usually when you’re out of breath or choking that you suddenly realize just how important it is.

Now, think about a goldfish swimming in a fishbowl. It eats, sleeps, and moves through the water. Water shapes everything it does, yet the fish doesn’t notice it. It only realizes water exists when it’s suddenly out of it.

For a fish, a world without water is drastically different than a world with it. In the same way, a world without the Word—without Christianity—is radically different from a world shaped by it.

Whether we realize it or not, Christianity is like the water to a fish or the air we breathe. Many of the values, institutions, and advancements we take for granted—like modern science, universities, human rights, and justice—exist because of the Christian worldview. But because they’ve always been there, we don’t recognize their connection to Christianity. At this year’s Reality Apologetics Student Conference, we’re pulling back the curtain to show students how Christianity has impacted our world.